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Comment by yuriken

Renataki is a legendary troll rogue, previously seen/spawned at the Edge of Madness event in the old Zul'Gurub. He has various items named after him ( like these ) as well. Here's his old NPC page with his drops and strats for his old encounter: Renataki.

Comment by Ketho

Ahhh... I shall add a new blade to my collection today.../run PlaySoundFile("sound\\CREATURE\\RENATAKI\\VO_ZG2_RENATAKI_AGGRO.ogg")

Comment by SigmaKitteh

This guy's laugh is soooooo full of epic!

Also, "It only hurts this much the first time. The second time, you're DEAD!" :3

Comment by Cactuscat

What is fun to note is that, if you've trained archaeology but don't yet have the required skill to summon the boss, you won't be able to click on the cursed objects, but you will be able to click on the others. Cuts down the time it takes to find the four - just mouse over, and direct your friend at those that don't show a cogwheel cursor.

Comment by TechDeck

He sometimes yells: "Rogues do it from behind...". I lol'd.

Comment by Liukus

The Archaeology skill required to summon the boss is only 225. Confirmed by being 224 and not being able to, solved an artifact and was 229 and able to. Blizzard likes to use increments of no less than 5 for their requirements. Enjoy getting the 225 archaeology to get some easy loot.

Comment by Tikaru

I can't help but think of Mark Hamill's Joker laugh when I fight this boss in ZG :)

Comment by degre

The summoning of a random boss requires a player with an Archaeology skill level of 225 to inspect several ancient artifacts and activate them.

Incorrect info, probably a typo.The skill required is 425.

Comment by Jalaji

Was trying to get Wushoolay today for a transmog chest and I made a discovery. If after you do the archaeology event the boss you want doesn't spawn, DO NOT kill him anyway. Zone out, and wait 30 minutes. When you zone back in the trash will have respawned, and when you go back to the cache of madness area there will be a new random cache boss there.

I repeated this 3 times today until I got Wushoolay. Still kind of a pain to have to wait 30 minutes each time, but it definitely beats only getting one shot at the right boss each day. Note that you don't have to click the artifacts again, the new boss will already be summoned. Also remember that it's possible and not entirely unlikely that you'll sometimes get the same boss multiple times in a row.

Renataki

Edge of Madness

Renataki is a troll rogue ghost boss that can spawn from the Edge of Madness event in Zul'Gurub. The summoning of a random boss requires a player with an Archaeologyskill level of 225 to inspect several ancient artifacts and activate them.

Strategy

Renataki, otherwise a tank-and-spank, periodically casts Ambush and Thousand Blades, a version of Fan of Knives on steroids. Run out of his whirlwinding path until he is done attacking and heal the ambushed target.

Vanish
– Renataki vanishes into the shadows. He then reappears and performs an Ambush on a random player.

Ambush
– Renataki strikes from the shadows at a random player, inflicting 90% of their maximum health as Physical damage and stunning them for 2 sec.

Thousand Blades
– Renataki spins around, wildly throwing blades and charging at random players. While spinning, he hurls blades in all directions. These blades inflict up to 4800 Physical damage on all players every second for 6 seconds. Damage is reduced the further the player is from Renataki.

Frenzy
– At 30% remaining health, Renataki enters a frenzy. This increases his attack speed by 60% for 2 min.